Treasure Trove: Baracchi's Astronomy Notebooks - ABC Local

Treasure Trove: Baracchi's Astronomy Notebooks ABC Local Astronomer, engineer and surveyor Pietro Paolo Giovanni Ernesto Baracchi was born in Florence, Italy, in 1851. He arrived in Australia at the age of 25 and later became the chief astronomer at the Melbourne Observatory, though he was better known as ...

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